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Media conglomerate CBS has bought Last.fm, the London-based social music network, for $280m. Despite falling well short of the daft $450m buy-out which rumours linked CBS rival Viacom with recently, the deal cuts a new high water mark 2.0 for UK internet companies. The move underscores how big media companies are subsuming the …

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  1. Steve Graham

    They Need The Money

    My perception of the last.fm service is that they've been hitting the limits of their hardware and networking for some time now. Pages typically take 10 seconds or more to refresh; sometimes they just time out. Lots of other stuff is either slow or occasionally fails.

    The new parent company needs to invest in infrastructure before doing anything else.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Viacom not quite a rival to Westinghouse - CBS

    I though that Viacom was still intertwined with CBS, both being part of "National Amusements" - CBS of today is the former Westinghouse, who took over the old CBS.

    Columbia/CBS records is part of SonyBMG as are their former Rivals RCA records.

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  3. Dillon Pyron

    Viacom, CBS & Westinghourse

    I bought CBS stock. Which was bought by Westinghouse. Which was bought by Viacom. Which sold Westinghouse. And then spun off CBS. So I own Viacom B (non voting) and CBS.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    Independent artists who use this service to gain exposure should probably go elsewhere. The mobster record companies do not like you to make any money without them getting a cut.

    Last.fm will probably go the same way as mp3.com

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  5. Brennan Young

    There goes the neighborhood

    Last.fm was one of the few web 2.0 sites that was actually useful. Now I guess we'll see CBS artists promoted over and above any others. Too bad.

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